udon
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- Comment on Bro 😭😭 6 hours ago:
Look at his hairline. He’s balding anyway so just gave it a try to see if he likes it. Made a PR campaign out of it, end of story
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 3 days ago:
The only little concession you get is that you are allowed to host your own data)
Nah, that’s not even a concession. You just pay for a portion of their server costs at no gain in influence.
Problem with Masto though is that the technological leadership is really bonkers, hardly anything meaningful happened over the past 2 years with lots of serious issues not getting fixed
- Comment on Journalist asking the hard questions 5 days ago:
Well, do they give the answer in the article? Kananaskis?
- Comment on Why do residential skyscrapers always seem to include balconies that never get used? 4 weeks ago:
Depends on where you live. In Japan, most of the time it’s either way too hot to hang out on the balcony or way too cold. In Europe it’s fine in many places for most of the year.
Some of it also has to do with rent prices which can be higher if you have a balcony.
Also, and again in Japan: There is an emergency balcony exit in some apartment buildings in case a natural disaster hits. It’s probably easier to climb your way down a bunch of balconies with holes in the ground than a blank wall
- Comment on Shart, not fart 3 months ago:
this burns twice
- Comment on Shart, not fart 3 months ago:
Crowdstrike strikes crowd
- Comment on Shart, not fart 3 months ago:
joke needs explanation
- Comment on Shart, not fart 3 months ago:
it’s a glimpse into a sad life
- Comment on Shart, not fart 3 months ago:
Aufenthaltserlaubnisverlängerungsantragsfrist verpasst.
- Comment on Shart, not fart 3 months ago:
Tight couch, ouch!
- Comment on Shart, not fart 3 months ago:
Actually, it’s GNU/Linux
- Comment on Remember when 15% was the expected, not the minimum? 3 months ago:
huh, tipping as outsourced management. Never thought of it like that. So it’s a win-win: Lower wages and less work to do!
- Comment on Why do so many people use NGINX? 3 months ago:
Counter question: Why does everyone call it “engine X” and not “enjinx”, which would be the way cooler pronunciation?
- Comment on Mario for president 3 months ago:
Republican brain should be depicted as considerably smaller though
- Comment on Firefox CTO Responds On Collecting User Advertisement Data 4 months ago:
Much has been said about this already, but I’m really annoyed how they repeatedly try to twist this into a technical question like:
“This is better for privacy than how it used to be. Here are 20 reasons why, and we have good scientists who say it offers good privacy. Do you have any technical arguments against these privacy claims? We welcome a discussion about possible flaws in the reasoning of the scientists/engineers in terms of assuring privacy.”
To me, that is a secondary question. More important:
- Don’t introduce tracking features against my will, with only an opt-out (ironically, while explaining in the same post why opt-outs suck)
- Give room to a discussion about tracking-based advertisements, whether we want to have that in the internet (IMHO no) and support it in firefox of all browsers (IMHO no)
- If they go this way, who is supposed to continue using their shit browser after this? The only reason left is that it’s “the reliable other/good browser”. People who don’t care about these questions are using Chrome anyway.
This is such a self-destructive move, it’s painful to watch.
- Comment on What's the ideal self hosted RSS setup? 4 months ago:
TLDR: Just using an app on your laptop with good filters (newsbeuter!) might be all you need.
IMHO, RSS readers without decent filters are useless. If you are going to subscribe to even 10, 20 feeds, you will be flooded with articles and have no chance to go through them all. Unfortunately, that already removes 95% of readers from the options.
A long time ago, I had a TinyTinyRSS setup running. TTRSS offers amazing filters and sorting mechanisms, which made it stand out. For example, I subscribed to several dozens of job recruiting feeds and filtered out everything that didn’t match. You could also add new filters easily. So if you see many job posts for “Twist dancer” and that is not your thing, you can just filter them out and it gets better over time.
At some point though, TTRSS changed their deployment setup, I think to docker at the time, and I couldn’t be bothered reading up how to set it up back then. Something like that. I also heard that the developer is a Nazi, but this may well be wrong. Both together were somehow enough for me though to drop it and I left the RSS game for a while.
A few months ago I started again, but this time just on my laptop. Turns out, the main advantage of a server-based version is that you can read stuff on mobile, which I don’t do so much anyway. So first I tried Liferea, which kind of worked but I couldn’t wrap my head around the filter mechanism. It’s supposed to work, but I tried to figure out which part of the code in which exact format to put where exactly. Documentation and error logs suck, and after suffering for 2-3 hours I left it be. Turns out though, Liferea is mostly just a GUI for newsbeuter, and that is where I am now. The filter language is awkward, especially if you have an older version that doesn’t support pretty coding yet (I use Debian, btw). But it works and I’m happy with it now!
Other than that, although a bit beside your question: Many websites don’t bother including RSS feeds anymore these days, or even removed them to make people look at their ad infested websites. Whichever reader you pick, make sure it easily supports custom RSS feeds. I wrote a little Python script using BeautifulSoup and FeedGenerator to make my own feeds in such cases and newsbeuter can include them easily. There is also this project for that job:
but I didn’t look into it in detail.
- Comment on Adopting a stray cat 4 months ago:
Why do you sleep in front of your house?
- Comment on Take a gander at this 4 months ago:
Thanks, but that was not the point of my comment. I’m just happy about that post, because finally I learned women get more privileges than men and I can ignore everything I heard about wage gaps, glass ceilings, and sexism at work. What a relief!
- Comment on Take a gander at this 4 months ago:
Ah, good source, thanks! That weighs up everything!
- Comment on The second matchup of the tournament 6 months ago:
Trick question, Wolf is a male surname.
- Comment on Country music 6 months ago:
International collaborations?
- Comment on A conversation with my wife 6 months ago:
Just added a downvote because there were already 145 (wtf?) and I wanted to be part of it! Highest number I’ve seen here so far, congrats!
I wonder how many others just thought it’s fun to jump on the downvote train. Nothing personal and there are worse things to worry about than a random count on a random website
- Comment on Usage Of Elon Musk’s X Dropped 30% In The Last Year, Study Suggests 8 months ago:
The whole Musk takeover is much less relevant/interesting for people outside the western context. I asked a few friends in Japan why they still use Twitter, but they just don’t care about the platform and ownership as long as they can still interact with their friends there. Curious how the botification will affect that over time, though.
- Comment on those damn vegans! 8 months ago:
Yes, sounds awesome! And let’s embed that chamber with a massive near-vacuum, so if you try to leave it, you suffocate. Also, it’s a giant, spinning blob in the middle of nowhere, with a gravity center at its core so you physically can’t even get away from it without a massive propulsion system and then what - go to the next random blob that offers nothing? Haha, I like your idea!
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 is less about what comes in the box and more about what you get over the years 8 months ago:
Yeah, but I’m not convinced by their approach anymore as a sustainable solution. Luckily the phone feature race has mostly come to a halt, so there is a chance now for free OS options to come up (which is what we’re seeing at the moment).
The part about tracking where the material comes from us good in principle, but mostly as a proof of concept so regulators can increase pressure on big manufacturers (if Fairphone can do it, apple/Samsung should also be able to). But regulators don’t regulate, unfortunately
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 is less about what comes in the box and more about what you get over the years 8 months ago:
Well, with fp1 specifically Google was not the main culprit. The phone used a chip (I think by mediatek?) and the producer didn’t publish the drivers. The Fairphone team promised to reverse engineer that for a while and at some point just said they won’t do it after all. That was the reason you couldn’t install other images on it, not cpu speed
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 is less about what comes in the box and more about what you get over the years 8 months ago:
Same here, they lost me after fp1 which didn’t receive security updates anymore. FP2 had this weird rubber band that got loose quickly with everyone I know who had one. Stopped following after that.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Ha, never thought of it like that. Although everyday Japanese also uses the alphabet occasionally, so you kind of have 4 alphabets to learn? 5 if you count Arabic numbers?
- Comment on Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media 8 months ago:
👟👟 Here, hope they fit!
- Comment on Is HTTPS a scam? 9 months ago:
@KingWizard is right, you don’t understand the fundamentals of this. You’re asking good questions, but people have been asking them decades ago and already found reasonably good answers. HTTPS works okay for what it does. Check out letsencrypt, watch some talks about it. Informing yourself about the matter will get you further than asking more random questions on lemmy.